View Full Version : Do you speak other languages? (Other than English)


Enigma'07
06-29-04, 10:20 PM
If so, what?

Dreamwalker
06-30-04, 04:55 AM
Besides English, I speak German, Spanish and French.

Bruce Wayne
06-30-04, 05:07 AM
Arabic, French, Dutch and a little Italian.

Next is Spanish (in september)

path
06-30-04, 06:55 AM
Norwegian (which means I can also understand and be understood in Danish and Swedish :p ), spanish.

cosmictraveler
06-30-04, 07:27 AM
Why the #@%!!&(*^%$# do you want to know. That is an example of one of my "other" languages that I know. :D

path
06-30-04, 07:38 AM
Why the #@%!!&(*^%$# do you want to know. That is an example of one of my "other" languages that I know. :D

klatu barda niktu to you too mr traveller

phlogistician
06-30-04, 08:34 AM
French, and some German. I always learn a little of the language if I go to visit somewhere, at least 'please' 'thankyou', and 'two beers'!

My French can get fairly good with a little practice. My German is clunky.

Facial
06-30-04, 03:53 PM
Spanish, my only one. :( I lost my Mandarin.

Fraggle Rocker
06-30-04, 06:01 PM
I don't "speak" any second language well enough to live a normal life in the country (except Esperanto, which has no country). But using my own geometric scale, in which 1.0 means you know one word and each higher point multiplies your vocabulary by 3.2 (assuming comparable advances in grammar and pronunciation), I am

8.5 in English
7.5 in Esperanto
7.0 in Spanish
6.5 in German
6.0 in Mandarin
5.5 in Portuguese
5.5 in Italian
5.0 in French
5.0 in Catalan
4.5 in pan-Slavonic (the basic vocabulary is almost identical with different phonetics in Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, etc.)
4.0 in pan-Scandinavian (same goes for Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic, as someone already pointed out)

I do much better in reading and writing, because I can just sit here with a dictionary.

jadedflower
06-30-04, 06:07 PM
Ermm... I speak English and Portuguese... I can dabble in Spanish and French... Italian is completely comprehensible but I sound like a duck trying to speak in it.

Bells
07-01-04, 03:13 AM
Aside from English. I speak French and a couple of French dialects, some Italian and Spanish (I understand and read better than I speak though, but I get by with both). I lost the German and Japanese.

Esoteric
07-01-04, 02:17 PM
Spanish mainly, and Italian. A bit of Portuguese.

Thor
07-01-04, 02:38 PM
English (primitive language it is), French (very rusty) and German (very rusty too). Currently learning Dutch

Closet Philosopher
07-01-04, 02:51 PM
I speak, read and write French and English at a high level. My French is getting a little rusty though but I am taking courses next year to brush it up, especially essay writing. I want to learn German. I might take a German course when I go to University.

Roman
07-01-04, 06:47 PM
Hablo una poca espanol.

whitewolf
07-01-04, 08:21 PM
I'm fluent in English and Russian. I completely forgot Hebrew and Latvian. But if I were a good girl in school, it would be so cool to speak 4 languages.... I plan to learn German.

sargentlard
07-01-04, 09:49 PM
I speak English, stupid, profanity, douche bag, gibberish and sometimes, to impress the ladies, i speak desperate.

6 languages...beat that fuckers.

Avatar
07-01-04, 10:04 PM
Besides Latvian I speak fluent English, good Russian, a bit German.
This year I'm going to learn Latin. Then the year after -> Spanish

whitewolf
07-02-04, 08:52 AM
Ah, if one of us helps out with Latvian, it just might come back to me....
/considers huge plans and conspiracies.

fahrenheit 451
07-02-04, 09:24 AM
I can speak every language in the world, except greek.




and they all sound greek, to me.
avatar are you going to be a botanist, otherwise why latin.

Logically Unsound
07-02-04, 09:27 AM
i am often praised on being able to talk a pile of crap with fluency.
i can speak english
and if fate had not conspired against me i would speak french and german. everyone talks english anyway, so it doesnt matter *sarcasm* :)

chunkylover58
07-02-04, 09:34 AM
I can have a casual conversation in Spanish and maybe order a beer and ask where the bathroom is in Italian ( I can also understand the Italian dialogue from The Godfather without reading the subtitles). I know more Spanish than Italian even though I took Spanish in high school and Italian 4 years later in my latter days of college. Italian wasfairly intuitive for me after going from Spanish. Being Latin based, they have many cognates and similar grammatical structures. From that angle, I can read some French and sort of figure out what's going on.